OLAF CONTINUES TO TARGET PUBLIC PROCUREMENT RED FLAGS
January 2nd, 2015
THE EUROPEAN Union’s (EU) anti-fraud office (OLAF) is in many ways a unique body – a team of expert accountants, lawyers and law enforcement professionals looking for fraud in an annual budget approaching Euro 150 billion, spent by a 28-country international organisation.It is unsurprising that fraud occurs in such a complex set up – indeed financial crime thrives where there potential cultural and linguistic misunderstandings and cross-border misunderstandings.Speaking to Accounting & Business in an exclusive interview at his office in Brussels, ...
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